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Illinois Speedsters Heading For Records 10-Second Backfield Threatens Records Chicago, Ort, 17 — Illinois’ •peed-crazy football team, featuring a quartet of 10-aecond backs, la running full speed ahead toward at IMM four new national offensive records. Coached by Hay Eliot, who lum designed his own T-formatlon to fit his fleet backfield. HVnols has rolled up record yardage In beating Illinois Normal, Indiana and lowa, tieing Great lackee and bowing to Purdue. Eliot's now-famou«< "stopwatch backfield.' in sprinting through the first half of its schedule. hae scored In aggregate 180 points to 95 and established the lllini as an un predh table team 'A touchdown-conscious trew. the mini concentrate on offense, consider defense a necessary lull in the game and win games by piling touchdown upon touchdown and Jetting the other team try to catch up. Following are the endangered records and the backs who are running to re-set them: Quarterback Don Greenwood, field general who does some of llltnoif pawting and all of its pitting; halftrack Paul Paterson, the workhorse of the backfield who does much of the running and most of the passing; halfltack Claude (Buddy I Young, leading scorer and featured -breakaway running, and fullhack Jerry Ciee. Blocker. The threatened records: 1 Average gain per pushing play of 5.7. set by Missouri in 1911 when backs Bob Steuber and Harry Ice carried the Tigers to the Big Ten title. In five games. Illinois has traveled at a 7.9 average. 2. Average gain per play, rushing

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and passing of 6.8, cet by Tulsa university In 1342 when Lt Glenn Oollbs was doing triple-threat offensive honors for the Golden Hurrican -. With five games remaining, Illinois has an 8.3 average 3. Average rushing gain per game of 224.5, set by the lowa Pre-flight Seahuwku In 1943. when they were national service champions. Even again*: such noted lines :.s Great Lake* and Purdue, Illinois has maintained a 360-yard average. 4. Ave-age gain per attempted forward pass of 10. set by the national and Big Ten champion in 1942. Ohio State. Although neither Greenwood nor Paterson are great pa««(era, IHlonis is averaging about i 12 yards in the overhead department. Illinois takes its vaunted oftenI dive east thin w -ekend to meet Pittsburgh in one of the day's top intersectional games. Two other Big en teams carry the conference’s reputation into .Major games Saturday. Ohio State, undefeated in three gam-s and the conference leader, entemins undefeated but once-tied Great latk e. and Wisconsn meets under ated. untied, unscored-upon .Notre Dame. The top conference garni of the day will be at lowa City where Purdu • wiH be a heavy favorite to take its second straight Big Ten game Indiana at Northwestern is I the oniy other Big Ten match, while Fort Francis E. Warren playa lowa prefllght on Sunday in the other major midwest meeting. -— o Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities G. E ALLEYS Kraft won three from McMillen; Legion won two from West End; Lane's won two from G. E I) C.’a; G. E. A. C's won three by forfeit from Kuhner Standings W. LLegion 10 5 Kraft io 5 West End .9 6 l-ane’a ... ,96 G ED C 9 6 G. E A. C 7 8 McMillen f, io Kuhner 1 14 -High aeries: A. Zelt 6 i (209-203-1961; G, laiurent 601 (203-204-194). High Korea: Hllty 204. Keller 204. Andrews 203. Mcdntish 214. o Plan To Organize Riding Club Here Cloice Elchar of this city announces that a meeting of persons interested in organising a riding club, will be held Sunday aft -moon at 2 o'clock at the Ahr sales bant on Monroe street Both English and western fanciers and riders are invited to the meeting, he said. o Trade in a Goou — •Wwatn-

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Million Attendance Boost In American Largest Increase • Is Made By Detroit Chicago. Oct. 17.—(UP) —The American league drew a total paid attendance of 4.798.158 for tne 1944 basket bull season, an increase of 1.101,589 over the 3,698,569 attendance mark of last yea- the c-hgue < fli- e announced today. Led by the Detroit Tigers, al) clubs with the exception of Washington made the turnstiles click a merrier tune in 1944 as the Junior circuit played Its third wartime season. The Tigers, nosed out of the championship on the tinai day, drew 923.176 fans, 316,889 more than they did in 1943. to lead the league and show the sharpest attendance hike. New York drew 789.995 for the second largest total, while Cleveland was last with 475.272. St. Louis, in winning its first American league pennant, attracted 508,644 as compared to 214.392 last year to register the second largest increase. St. Louis' attendance was the highest since 1924 when the Browns finished fourth. "In many respects, 1 consider the 1944 season the greatest in the American league's history. Not only did we have an attendance which approached our 1940 high of 5.433.791, but we enjoyed a great race almost from the start of the season, the pennant not being decided until the closing day." president William Harrldge of the American league said. The 4.798.158 does not include the 197,075 fans who paid for the American league's world series games—played for the benefit of the Bed Cross and war relief —nor 508,491 servicemen who were admitted free as guests of the respective clubs during the season. Harridge said. The addition of servicemen and world series fans boosts the total paid attendance to 5.503,724, slightly more than the junior loop's 1940 high-water attendance mark which was set as Detroit won the pennant by one gatfie over Cleveland. Following are the complete attendance figures for the 1944 season, excluding the war relief games: Clubs Attendance 1944 1943 Itetroit 923.176 606.287 New York 789,995 618,330 Chicago 563.539 508,962 Washington 525.235 574.698 St. Louis 508.644 214.392 Boston 506.975 358.275 Philadelphia 505,322 376,735 Cleveland 475.272 438,894 O T oday's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) ♦ • —- —-— —■ O New York. Oct 17.—(UP)—Like the feller who was bopped on the noggin by a gold nugget. Navy's football team was staggered temporarily by the sudden acquisition of four stellar players in September. That was the major reason for the Middies' mysteriously unimpressive showing In their first three

gaam this season, according to Lieut. Crndr. Kip Miller, the sailors' big. genial line coach. Rip, originally one of. the seven tnuler of Notre Dame, mid New York writers, "when the NCAA, withdrew its ban on four-year players, a quartet of our stars became available immediately — men upon whom we hadn't counted at all. They were Hal Hamberg, Ben Martin. Jack Martin and Don Whitmire. "We were delighted to get them back, because they are fine players. But they provided a unique problem. We had already organised the team with players who had worked together since spring. It now became necessary to fit in the big four without disturbing the work we had already accomplished. Unfortunately this proved an Impossibility, and we suffered ragged play as a result. But we're getting our feet on the ground now. and we'U lie totigh from pere on. That bard game with Duke was just what we needed to straighten out the kinks." Navy, heralded as perhaps the strongest team In the nation, lost its opening game to North Caroline Pre-Flight. It came back to wallop Penn Stale, SS-14; but barely eked out a 7-0 win over sub-par Duke. Miller emphasised that the team was over-rated in July and August; and when the experts learned that Hamberg. Whitmire and the two Martins were eligible, they Immediately hailed the blue-and-gold outfit as a “super-team." He quipped, “they added when they should baVe subtree tad.” Rip continued: “we coaches were partially at fault for permitting the pre-season ballyhoo to swell beyond the team's merits. However, it's charseteristic of the Army and Navy to be optimistic. And the naval academy, particularly, has supported football throughout its training , program. Besides, we figured It would have been poor psychology to play down the team." Mesnwhlle Hamberg, the rabbit runner with the rubber pitching

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Kirkland Kangaroos Lisi Net Schedule 14 Games Scheduled For Kirkland Five The Kirkland Kangaroos, with five lettermen available from last year's 'earn, have 14 games scheduled for the 1944-45 'basketball sea<«on. In addition to the five experienced men. the Kangaroos will also have Wet.ct, regular last year at Monmouth, and Worthman. former Decatur student. The complete Kirkland scheduh follows: Nov. 3 Monroe at Kirkland Nov. 10 —-Pleaaant Milla al Kirkland. Nov. 17—-Hartford township at Hartford. Dec. 1 Monmouth at Kirkland Dec. 8 —Jefferson at Geneva. Dec. 15 —Lancaster at Kirkland. Dec. 22—-Pleasant Mills at Pleasant Mllta Jan 5 .Hartford at Kirkland. Jan. 19 -Monmouth at Monmouth. Jan. 26- Jeffenaon at Kirkland. Jan 30--Decatur Commodores at Kirkland. Fell. 2 —Geneva at Geneva FVtb. 9—d-ancaster at 1-ancaater. Feb. 14—Monroe at Berne

Harness Racing At Fort Wayne This Week A million dollar stable of harness horses will feature the opening of a tnree-race. three heat event to be held at the Fort Wayne speedway Thursday. Fri day and Saturday of this week. The program will be held each evening under the floodlights at 7:30 o'clock. Over 100 horses, the finest pick of the Grand Circuit entries are now stabled at the speedway and will compete for the purses of the three-night events. Free parking and grandstand seats will be included in the one general admission price of 11, tas included. All servicemen and women In uniform will be admitted free on Thursday evening as the guests of Charles McKinley, new owner of the speedway In Fort Wayne. AACHEN BATTLE (Contlyod From rage M parently squelching at least temporarily a threatened full scale counterattack. On the Dutch front north of Aachen, the British 2nd army outflanked the stubborn snehor post of Venrsi in a drive through Vierllngsbeck, three miles to the nortneast, almost to the Macs arm. was re-installed at tailback. He tossed the winning pass against Duke. Jack .Martin, a huge 240pounder, is back at center, fleet Ben Martin at end. and Whitmire at tackle. The tour were regulars on last year’s team which was beaten only by Notre Dame. Millar made nc predictions about Saturday’s intersoedbnai clash with unbeaten Georgia Tech at Atlanta, but ho expressed confidence that the Middies would play with more precision than against Duke.

I Meuse i river, and a front dispatch aald violent fighting raged throughout the night in the outskirts of Venrai. At the northeast corner of Lt. Gen. Sir Miles S. Dempsey's salient near Nijmegen, the Germans laid down the heaviest artillery barrage in nearly lu days, which was believed designed Io cover a limited withdrawal behind the front. linifsh patrol units which ferried across the Neder Rhine west of Arnhem were reported ranging the north bank of the river in the Wageningen ar-a against little opposition. A supreme headquarters communique reported “steady progress” by the Canadian Ist army north of the Leopold canal, with gains of more than half a mile against dwindling resistance. A counterthrust dented the Canadian lines at one point near Woensdrecht. but Lt. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's forces improved their Hchelde bridgehead position. On the opposite flank of the hattlefront in eastern France, the Germans mounted "many' counterattacks In the Vosges foothills in an attempt to stem the FrancoAmerican flanking drive north of the Belfort gap which was aimed through the Schlucht pass to the Rhineland. o—Seek Purchase Os Berne Auditorium Negotiations are reported to have been started, which, if completed, would be for the purchase- of the Berne Community Auditorium. An offer has been made to the auditorium association from out-of-town interests to purchase the building. Walther League Rally And Banquet Sunday Prof. Ottomar Krueger, president of Concordia college. Fort Wayne, will be the speaker st the annual rally and banquet of the Inter-river xone Waither league, which will be held at the Monmouth high school Sunday evening at 4 30 o'clock. The Rev. H. J. Bouman, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, will serve as toastmaster.

Th* rally meeting wHI be held at the Immanuel Lutheran church at 130 p. m. The banquet m sponeored by the Immanuel Walther league and ticket* may be obtained at any Lutheran church in thia community. Hinkle Is Ordered To Pacific Duty Chicago, Oct. IT.—(UP)—Lt. (JO) Paul Brown. Great Luke* naval training center tootball coach, haa been appointed acting athletic ofBeer to replace Lt. Cmdr. Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle. Commodore R. R. M Emmet, commander of the center, announced today. Hinkle, who baa coached two Oreat Lake* basketball team* and two football team* to aervlce championship*, ha* been ordered to duty In the aouthweat Pacific. ■— l o China-Based Planes Harass Jap Shipping Chungking. Oct. IT — (UP) — fhlna-beeed American plane*, cooperated with naral force* ol For-

Continue Probe Os • Slaying Os Heiress Seventh Volunteer Suspect Released Hollywood. Oct. 17. — (I’P,)— Releasing their seventh volunteer suspect in the rape murder of chubby Georgette Bauerdorf. sheriff’s Investigators today chocked the possibility that her generous lodging of servicemen had fed to the savage attack that left the 20 year-old New York heiress dead In her bathtub. From neighbors and a pile of “thank you notes" from soldiers all over the world, the sheriffs men learned that the Hollywood canteen hostess had often loaned her living room to fighting men without a place to sleep. While they bedded down In the luxurious downstairs room, she retired In her upstairs bedroom, where she was beaten, strangled, and ravished early Thursday morning Capt. William J. Penprase, heading the Investigation, considered the possibility that someone who had learned her habits through previous friendship had returned to He In wait. The light bulb over the door of her fashionable apartment was unscrewed. Penprase thought, by the attacker who lurked In the shadow waiting for the pretty brunet to come home. Telling her he needed a bed again, he might have entered the apartmnt with her. waited downstairs until he knew she was ready for bed. and then accosted her. A towel had been jammed down her throat to stifle her screams, and her pajama trousers wenripped from her body. The killer tried to tear the towel out before he threw the body in the overflowing bathtub to make the death look accidental, but ripped It off at her death-clenched teeth. He took the keys to her green coupe from her purse and fled, leaving the front door open. The car was abandoned 10 miles away In a negro district. Cpl. Cosmo Volpe, who identified himself us the jitterbugging soldier with whom Miss Bauerdorf danced dance after dance at the canteen on her last night alive, was released last night. He had left the canteen yesterday night at 10 o'clock and was checked Into his base at Lockheed air terminal at 11:30 p. m, at least an hour before the killing. Two negro janitors were released as questioning of Volpe began. They admitted having had passkeys to Miss Bauerdorf's apartment, but said they turned them In when they went to work in a war plant last month. Both had been at work the night of the killing.

BUDAPEST REPORTED ■ Coatis—c rne rwe l> Ferenc Sxalasi. arrow cross party leader whom radio Budapat said had been designated by Horthy to form a new cabinet, moved quickly to prevent any countercoup that would take Hungary out of the Axis camp. A Hungarian broadcast heard by BBC said the new cabinet would bold its first meeting late this afternoon. Hungarian diplomatic circles in Bern said martial Lew had been declared in Budapest. All Inhabitants were ordered to remain indoors at night on penalty of being shot on sight by SS troops and arrow cross party squads should they emerge. Radio Budapest confirmed that a dusk-todawn curfew had been ordered and said doors of houses must remain closed at all times with no visitors permitted. Gatherings of three or more persons in the streets were prohibited with the exception of shopping and trolley station queues. The sale of alcohol was prohibited and only army cars and automobiles bearing German license plates were allowed In the streets. Radio Budapest said anti-Bemitlc regulations were reinstated, forbidding Jews to leave their home and non Jews to visit Jews. 13 MEN LtAVE tContlowcßien. Cut 1) furlough. The 12 leaving for examinations are aa follows: Robert Jonas Rice, DeWayae Steiner, Glenn Allen Straub, Jr., Eugene Edward Loshe, Rolland Leo Gllllom. Glenn Dale Moaner. Francis Luther Pollock, Arnold Rsy Roughla. Paul Eugene Hakes. Hobart Glenn Troutner, Herman mosa. sank a Japanese c.-uiser of the t,170-ton Natori class, probably «ank a destroyer and destroyed or damaged 48.000 additional tons of enemy shipping Monday, it was announced today. Ths cruiser and destroyer, tbs latter of the Tsrutaukl class, where caught in a naval convoy ia the south China sea by American Liberators early Monday morning. The cruiser blew up. while a direct hit or near mles was ecored on the destroyer.

Harold Hendricks, Joseph Henry Fogle. Two conscientiouK objectors for final type examinations prior were also sent to Indianapolis to being ordered to a work camp They were Mahlon If. Miller and Joseph R. Wickey. o . Fractures Knee Cap In Fall From Chair Mrs. Sylvester Sorg. is at her home at 333 North Third street, suffering from a painful injury sustained when she fell from a chair and fractured her knee cap at the Sort; meat market Monday evening about 6 o'clock. She was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital where her knee was put in a cast and she was then taken to her home. She is progressing very well, according to. the attending physician. o--Ease Restrictions On Building Materials Washington, Oct. 17 —(UP) —The war production board and national housing agency today lifted reatric'ons on the use of certain building materials and authorized construction of standard pre-war type homes. Relaxations of restrictions result.ed from an easing of storages In certain critical materials, the two agencies announced, to give builders greater freedom In design and the use of housing materials and equipment "as they become available." The action lifted restrictions on total floor area in the home

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uni’, number ts Plumbing fi M King George | T *° Battlef I(l „ t! I Somewhere | n J P ’ Kll| RGe 0t . t a lively lour Regain fronts ha, close enough to , h , the erv-k Os 53 ■ntl the shriek ofa~*!l was disc losed tod>. From the Allied of Nijmegen, the ot Reich. wa)d fore,”?** Os Germany ,j n ce * The trip w iH (h , M of the Alll.d batthfag||S Republican Labor Policies Assailed — —> •ndianpaolh, Oct. 17 Governor Schrtckw. senatorial nomlwa, tM night that Ui mr Him*,*, •ured m the B>n6a«f-3 tors " of the Repui,!t tM , Picked Wemjeii Wir,|<.r\J Democrat, and then when they found that In a campaign charged ;hat "the the Rockefellers the Ihftm others will h> (e their Hon for the laboring after election." There were 2.«2 chew, hi in the U. 8. in 1939. tsj a,j 009 person. Value of M was more than 3108 B i" a